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Walter Darby Bannard
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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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